Reaper - Tale of a Pale Swordsman

Reaper, unos de los mejores juegos que conosco asta ahora ya que pueden aver mejores, bueno a lo que venia. Reaper un juego vastante divertido y con estrategias increibles que uno deve de saber para ganar, lo que mas me gusta es que no tiene microtransachiones, y creo que por ser de steam te dan una espada verde de 1 estrella, por que en android no te la dan, y bueno, sus graficos, si entorno, sus animaciones, sus objetos, y mas cosas, me parecen un gran esfuerso por parte de Hexagon. Bueno, como soy humilde me compre las dos versiones, la de android (que tienes que comprar el juego completo) y de pc que esta mas barato pero esta bien.

mechanically solid sidescrolling roguelite, pretty art style and good soundtrack

Slooow, bad controls, also slow. It's so slow I had to say it 3 times to make you waste more time reading this to get an inkling of how slow it is.

It's a good time-passer. I'd suggest the mobile version over the PC version since you probably have other games at your disposable on a PC. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☑ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☐ Teens ☐ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☑ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☑ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☑ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

Reaper has a lot of charm — the art style is genuinely beautiful and the dialogue/story kept me engaged longer than I expected from a mobile port — but the PC experience is rough around the edges in ways that are hard to ignore. The auto-attack system made sense on a touchscreen, but on PC it just means you shuffle up to enemies and watch your character swing while you wait to build rage skulls for the actual interesting moves. The floaty movement combined with bouncing gold coins that fly offscreen every time you kill something turned what should be satisfying moments into minor frustrations that compound over hours of play. The dash triggering from a double-tap is genuinely dangerous near pits, and some enemy types feel less like skill checks and more like slot machines. It's worth picking up on a deep sale if you like the aesthetic and want something low-stakes to zone out to, but at full price there are better options.

The December 2024 update has made the game playable again! I honestly never thought the devs would ever get back to Reaper since it's not a game that gets DLC (would absolutely love some) or regular updates. I cannot write just how excited I am to be able to get back in and 100% the achievements on this game. Tale of a Pale Swordsman was one of the first games I bought to play on my first self-built custom PC, to say this is a nostalgia pick is an understatement. It's a mechanistically simple game with a simple story, but it does it so well that you can't help but be enchanted by it. I still consider the sound and music design with the graphics/visuals top tier --again nothing too crazy, but VERY well done and cohesive (plus the 2024 update also brought higher quality audio/music files). The characters are cute with unique designs that make it easy to track which enemy type and friendly (or not) faction/NPCs you're interacting with. The items and skill cards are also some of my favorite designs in all of the games I've ever played too. Seriously, if you don't love those overly complicated rogue-lites and want an excellently simple (it can still get crazy in Dark Harvest though) experience, Tale of a Pale Swordsman is the game for you.

Peak